A federal appeals court has refused to let the Trump administration enforce new nationwide mail-ballot requirements for the November midterm elections, ruling that the U.S. Postal Service likely crossed a constitutional line by regulating how states conduct federal elections.The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a preliminary... Read More »
The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate a rule that gives many H-1B visa holders up to 60 days to remain in the United States after losing their jobs, potentially forcing thousands of foreign workers and their families to make immigration decisions almost immediately after employment ends.The Department of Homeland... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Missouri from using a newly drawn congressional map in the November midterm election, stepping into an escalating legal battle that had produced directly conflicting orders from state and federal courts.In an unsigned order issued Thursday, September 10, the justices granted an emergency request from... Read More »
President Donald Trump has escalated the U.S. trade fight with Canada beyond tariffs, ordering outright bans on imports of certain Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles beginning September 29.The move raises a legal question that became more important after the Supreme Court curtailed Trump’s tariff authority earlier this year. If... Read More »
President Donald Trump says Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier will no longer be allowed to sell jets in the United States unless it moves production to the country, raising a new legal question in the expanding U.S.-Canada trade dispute: Can a president simply ban a foreign company’s aircraft from the American... Read More »
A payment processing company has agreed to pay $12 million and accept sweeping restrictions on its business after the Federal Trade Commission accused it of helping more than 1,000 sham merchants process unauthorized charges on consumers’ credit and debit cards.The FTC sued 5967 Ventures LLC, which does business as Humboldt... Read More »
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a federal system that allows states to conduct large-scale citizenship checks of their voter rolls using immigration and Social Security records, less than two months before the November midterm elections.The Department of Homeland Security filed an emergency application Tuesday,... Read More »
OpenAI says an artificial intelligence system has solved one of mathematics' most famous unsolved problems, but a dispute involving two mathematicians who used the company's Codex tool is raising a separate question: what happens when researchers share unpublished work with an AI platform that is also developing competing research capabilities?The... Read More »
The Southeastern Conference has sued LSU in federal court as a Louisiana judge cleared a path for former NFL players to return to college football, escalating an eligibility fight days before Lane Kiffin’s Tigers open their season against Clemson.The SEC filed its lawsuit just after midnight Thursday, September 3, in... Read More »
The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive new nationwide restrictions on mail ballots just as North Carolina begins sending the first absentee ballots of the 2026 midterm elections.The Justice Department asked the Court Thursday, September 3, to lift a federal judge’s temporary order blocking a new... Read More »
New Jersey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether prediction markets such as Kalshi can offer sports betting nationwide without complying with state gambling laws, bringing a rapidly growing regulatory fight to the nation’s highest court.New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and Mary Jo Flaherty, interim director of... Read More »
Federal prosecutors have charged a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with lying to investigators about the January shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, months after video evidence undermined the government’s original account of the confrontation.Christian Castro, the ICE officer who authorities say shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the... Read More »
A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Trump administration from applying President Donald Trump’s latest birthright citizenship order to a class of U.S.-born children, finding that the Supreme Court already settled their constitutional right to citizenship earlier this year.U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday,... Read More »
California lawmakers have approved legislation that would impose new requirements on attorneys who use generative artificial intelligence, including verifying AI-generated work, disclosing its use in court filings, and protecting confidential client information.Senate Bill 574, known as the Court A.I. Protection Act, passed the Legislature and was sent to Gov. Gavin... Read More »
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department’s effort to force Google to sell a key part of its online advertising business, allowing the technology giant to keep its AdX advertising exchange despite an earlier ruling that Google illegally monopolized parts of the digital advertising market.U.S. District Judge Leonie... Read More »
